Dyche Mullins et al.

Cell Biologist at UCSF. Interested in molecular self-assembly, evolutionary cell biology, scientific publishing reform, and yes, Russian poetry.

[Hernan Garcia @HernanGGarcia]

@berkeleyMCB @schmidtsciences Incredibly grateful to Schmidt Sciences! This would not have happened without the people in my lab, past and present, who drive our most creative work. This award will give us the freedom to explore new problems across disciplines. Excited to see where it takes us next!

[Brian English🔬 @sciencethecat]

What would it feel like to go with the flow inside a cell?
A lovely new Current Biology Dispatch by Dyche Mullins on work led by Cathy & Jim Galbraith "expands our cellular imagination" to the cell's own sluices, pumps & dams.
https://t.co/SlhxNVmTZK
https://t.co/1cNTBJSY1j

[Dyche Mullins et al. @MullinsLab]

@MAG2ART Nice talk. I am sitting in the audience

[Dyche Mullins et al. @MullinsLab]

@LakeShowLars @GavinNewsom Yes!!

[Dyche Mullins et al. @MullinsLab]

@dieworkwear @gregosuri Great thread, as usual. You are making me nostalgic for the now sadly defunct Glaser Designs of San Francisco. They were a great family-owned artisanal business.

[bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv_cellbio]

Membrane-associated polymerases deliver most of the actin subunits to a lamellipodial network https://t.co/vTRP3gqvXy #biorxiv_cellbio

[Dyche Mullins et al. @MullinsLab]

@_OmQu Great question. The process is SOOPER fast; kinetically limited by how quickly filaments slide past each other. Might be hard to make it go significantly faster

https://t.co/Bj9eQmkwra

[Uri Manor @manorlaboratory]

Lovely analysis by @MullinsLab of a somehow underrated effect: Membrane tethering reduces molecular diffusion from 3D to 2D, which can accelerate local actin polymerization. Super important when contemplating 3D in vitro metrics in cellular context!
https://t.co/QWdazEzHK6

[Alexandra Colin @acoli12]

New study out on bioRxiv! We have studied how resources are shared between actin networks competing for a limited pool of components.

https://t.co/UM4o1FMWuJ

[Dyche Mullins et al. @MullinsLab]

The high point of any graduate program retreat has to be the Booth-Buchwalter cocktail party. Young faculty like this give me hope for the future. @dsboothacosta @abbybuch

[Zebrafish Rock! @ZebrafishRock]

Two-chambered heart of a live zebrafish embryo. Credit to @_Priya_R. #ZebrafishZunday

[Dyche Mullins et al. @MullinsLab]

Hmm. Food for thought

[Will Ratcliff @wc_ratcliff]

Interesting...the virome of the last eukaryotic common ancestor is bacterial, not archaeal.
https://t.co/dkZsaFFoIf

This may be evidence that a bacteria engulfed an ASGARD archaea, rendering it immune from viruses, not the other way around as is typically assumed. Cool!

[Dyche Mullins et al. @MullinsLab]

Congratulations to CMP Assistant Professor Jeannette Tenthorey (@JTenthorey) for receiving the NIH Director's New Innovator (DP2) Award! @UCSF @UCSFMedicine @UCSFcmp

[Dyche Mullins et al. @MullinsLab]

@altos_labs @HanaScientist Cool-looking microscope!

[Tanner Fadero @TanFad]

Visualizing moth wing scale development with @KyleDeMarr from @MullinsLab on @amsikking's AIRR snoutscope today! Using a 1.3 oil-immersion lens to image >100 um deep past the moth's cuticle. Absolutely gorgeous biology and microscopy.

[Rosalie Lawrence @ScienceyRosalie]

Thrilled to announce the Lawrence Lab will open its doors within UCLA Biological Chemistry @BC_UCLA in January 2025! I couldn’t be more excited!

[Dyche Mullins et al. @MullinsLab]

Huge congratulations to Lil Fritz-Laylin!

[Lillian Fritz-Laylin @FritzLaylin]

So excited and grateful for this fantastic support for our lab! This is an honor earned by the lab as a community of fantastic, smart, and wonderful colleagues. Congrats, team!

[Dyche Mullins et al. @MullinsLab]

@HenriquesLab Sometimes notice it. Never bothers me.

[Tanner Fadero @TanFad]

Archaeal Cell Biology working group 2024
@RealMullinsLab @MullinsLab @A_CharlesOrszag

[Uri Manor @manorlaboratory]

Superstar inaugural Manor Lab postdoc Cara's new paper is up! Here we show ER-actin accumulates at ER-organelle contacts to regulate their fission and mobility. This applies to mitos, lysos, and endosomes, and is mediated by INF2, an ER-anchored formin. https://t.co/s8ZBpcUkDA